Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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The text boards have never been popular, but it doesn't help that there is no way to enter the text boards through the home page anymore, gotta added /frames/. Moot essentially fucked over these boards by doing so

I'm pretty sure radicals and bushu are the same. You most likely just saw different organization methods. By searching 部首(bushu) I found this http://kanji.ifdef.jp/radical.html
It says radical in the url and 部首 at the top.

But to go further in-depth, radicals have 7 places where they can go, which determines what end tag they have on them. see http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm